Common lascar
The common lascar is a small black butterfly with bright orange bands and stripes. Underneath, its wings are chestnut brown with lilac lines. It lives in warm, tropical parts of Asia.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar comes in two forms. One is smooth, and one has long spines.
The smooth caterpillar is the colour of a withered leaf, with dark bands that look exactly like the gaps between little leaflets. It is a perfect disguise.
The two kinds of caterpillar are never found together.
In the dry season the orange markings on its wings are much broader.
In Sri Lanka it has its own island form, with wavier edges to its markings.
Most asked questions about Common lascar
?How big is the common lascar?
Its wings measure about 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the common lascar caterpillar eat?
The leaves of acacia and albizia trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pantoporia hordonia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pantoporia hordonia (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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